TSA officers try to screen passenger after his flight, threaten him after refusal (VIDEO)

​A man was recently stopped by TSA agents in the Denver International Airport and asked to undergo additional screening after he had already flown from Minneapolis. The man refused their requests, capturing the encounter on video.

Kahler Nygard says he
has assumed based on his treatment at airports in recent years
that he has a low-level designation on the United States
government’s no-fly list, possibly given past contributions to
web forums that discuss anti-government sentiments, he
said.

Once he stepped off his
plane that had just arrived in Denver, Nygard wasapproachedbyTransportation Security
Administrationofficers who asked him to submit to
an additional security screening. He resisted, asked why he was
subject to a post-flight search. Nygard had a friend tape
hisinitial screeningbefore the flight, where
he was “thoroughly screened” but had no problems.

“If I traveled from
point A to point B safely, why does there now need to be more
screening before I am allowed to leave? That would lead me to
believe that I’m being detained,” Nygard said.

The main TSA agent that
confronted Nygard said he would call local police if Nygard would
not comply.

“I am not going to
argue with you. Are you going to comply, or are you not?”
the TSA agent said repeatedly.

Nygard, with camera in
hand, insisted that a post-flight screening would be a
detainment, and that the TSA agents had no right to do so. He
eventually walked away from the agents.

Nygard said in
asubsequent
interviewthat the
main agent, who said his name was Alex Grossman, followed him out
of the airport, and that there was ultimately no intervention
from Denver police.

As of about one year
ago, about 48,000 people were on the no-fly list, according to
AP. It is the government’s policy to neither confirm nor deny
that one is on the no-fly list, per security claims. Many assume
they are on the list after they are routinely subjected to
additional screening at airports, or are barred from flights
altogether.

The post-9/11
counterterrorism program has been criticized for a lack of due
process based on the opaque way the federal government has
handled details of its no-fly list.

Last month, it was
reported that the US Justice Department willeasethe
no-fly list process in the next six months.

In an August court
filing, the US government said it will "endeavor to increase
transparency for certain individuals denied boarding who believe
they are on the No Fly List."

The policy reversal
comes after a federal judgeruled in Junethat it is unconstitutional for
those on the list to not have any significant path to challenge
their designation as a risk when flying to, from or within the
United States.

Thirteen Muslim-American
plaintiffs sued the federal government over its no-fly list
policies, arguing that the list violates constitutional rights to
due process.

"The court concludes
international travel is not a mere convenience or luxury in this
modern world. Indeed, for many international travel is a
necessary aspect of liberties sacred to members of a free
society," District Judge Anna Brown, of Oregon, wrote in the
June decision.

"Accordingly, on this record the court concludes plaintiffs
inclusion on the no-fly list constitutes a significant
deprivation of their liberty interests in international
travel," Brown said.